Question Of The Day: What’s Your Most Used Music App?

With the influx of tablets plus smartphones becoming more brilliant by the day, more people are using their mobile devices for everything once reserved for PCs and laptops. Included in the shift to mobile would be music apps, which have seen an enormous rise and a wealth of options for avid listeners and fans. We know people have their preferences so we want to know which music apps top your most used list?

Pandora currently tops mine, mostly because there’s no thinking involved and nothing’s stored on my phone. Search an artist and Pandora generates a playlist composed of songs by that that artists and others. After that, the latest one I’ve been testing is SoundTracking, which plays a lot like Instagram in that it allows you to share what you’re listening to with status updates to social networks (shameless plug: find my profile at JohnGotty).

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Pandora’s pretty dope… I use that plus the free version of spotify. Music nowadays is just more about access than ownership—long as you know where you can hear it, that’s basically as good as “owning” it… it’s all files anyway.

And while it’s technically a site, I luv Bandcamp. Its search features is total crap, but pretty much half the new/small artists i’ve “discovered” in the last 2-3 years have come just from fumbling around on Bandcamp.

Tho a cat from Myxer Radio came into work the other week… i swear dude was on coke. But their app is pretty cool and i use that at times. It’s like being on facebook while you listen to music–you can create stations and share ’em and listen. Dude’s presentation sucked, but it was free so i fiddle with it.

i was using google music for a while, but because it doesnt hold my entire library ive been using audiogalaxy almost exclusively (subsonic prior to that)…audiogalaxy is great because typically im using my cell phone to connect in my car and i can access my entire library..

@david bowie…i dont know who the ‘they’ that you are referring to, but it works well for me…like i mentioned, i mainly use it while driving (or at the beach) to access my library, and i usually keep it on shuffle…the only drawback is that it IS web based, so if you have a shitty connection, it affects the playback…driving and streaming causes brief pauses sometimes…

@s cadet, no catch (that i’m aware of) and i sure as hell am not paying for it…as i mentioned, i was using subsonic prior to finding out about audiogalaxy, which worked similarly, but after the trial period, it asks for a $20 donation…i consider myself pretty tech savy, but subsonic was a bit more complex (from a usage standpoint) than audiogalaxy…

audiogalaxy??! i swear i was just thinking of that site a few days ago, but not for the reasons it is being used for 2day… this was my backup when napster was finally taken down… audiogalaxy was good to me back in the day and is responsible for a good chunk of the music i “own” to this day…

Spotify and it’s no longer close. I used to use Pandora all the damn time, but I feel like they start pigeonholing you after a while and don’t play enough variety.

I dropped that $10 a month for Spotify premium and it’s easily worth it. Amazing to have damn near any song you can think of at your fingertips no matter where you are. I’ll still cop albums of certain artists that i want to support (RAP Music, e.g.) but I have two kids now and can’t justify spending 30-50 bucks a month on music anymore.

Maybe they’ve tweaked the responsiveness since I last used the app (it’s probably been 6-10 months), but it seems that they like to combine all hip-hop into one big group. So whether I’m trying to create an Outkast station or a Wu-Tang station, they will inevitably end up playing Wayne or Eminem.

The main reason I don’t use Pandora as often is I prefer to listen to music as an entire album rather than just random songs bunched together. Pandora is good for party music or working out, but if I am vibing out by myself, I’ll normally listen to albums. That’s why I prefer Spotify.

yup and i put anything i download in there to play offline as well. spotify is the shit. Needs to make songs a little louder and a few albums/songs are missing but i make that up easy. Ten bucks a month has given me all of the new albums without having to actually support some of these entitled assholes. If i digg ya (Nas, Em, Deshay, Danny Brown, Ras G), I’ll forever support you financially